For my sins in a past life, it has become my job to help prepare offers of hardware updates to our customers.
This past weekend, prices for HP servers and most components increased by 40% to 70% for most components at our usual supplier. Oh, and 16 GB RAM now costs 7.5 times as much as it did a year ago.
@juergen_hubert cries in "can't even consider upgrading or replacing if our current rigs suddenly fail for any reason"
@juergen_hubert
One day, this bubble is going to burst.
@juergen_hubert Do you honestly believe that this is just because of "addictive properties" of AI?
Nope. I think it's mostly a massive scam.
@juergen_hubert And you are among the few enlightened who don't fall for it. Got it.
Any way to falsify that hypothesis?
@juergen_hubert
Very sad.
A mix of real ordering for AI and vendor exploitation of perception?
I remember once RAM was stolen from an entire classroom of PCs. The replacement of x2 per PC was cheaper than original build 😀
Mad prices now for East German male sheep.
My last purchase was a second hand Dell Optiplex 7050 (5 year warranty) from local CEX. Only 256G SSD, but 16 G RAM. €130. I added a 4 T 3.25" HDD for the user Data. Linux Mint with Mate Desktop
New stuff apart from screens is mad.
